Class: The Audio Adventures: Difference between revisions

|release count      = 5

|story count        = 13

|production codes  = BFPCLASS01-BFPCLASS04

|script ed2        = James Goss

|sound              = [[Luke Pietnik]], [[Richard Fox]], [[Toby Hrycek-Robinson]]

|cover              = [[Stuart Manning]], [[Tom Webster]], [[Sean Longmore]]

|soundcloudtrailer  = soundcloud.com/big-finish/class-volume-1-trailer

|soundcloudtrailer2 = soundcloud.com/big-finish/class-volume-2-trailer

All six regular actors returned voicing their characters for the first two volumes. Due to availability issues for volumes three and four, [[Andrea Quill]] and [[Tanya Adeola]] were recast as [[Dervla Kirwan]] and [[Joanna McGibbon]] respectively. The series also saw the return of [[Ace]] and the [[Dalek]]s, after their previous visit to [[Coal Hill School|Coal Hill]] in [[1988 (releases)|1988]]'s ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''. [[Patrick Ness]], who created the show and wrote [[Series 1 (Class)|its first series]], was involved with the storyline and scripts of the audio series, despite not writing any of the stories.<ref name="Big Finish Podcast"/><ref>https://twitter.com/scott_handcock/status/1002265126991466496</ref>

"[[Up All Night (song)|Up All Night]]" couldn't be used as the theme tune for the series due to rights issues so instead the stories opened using the 'Class Credits' music, that had been composed by [[Blair Mowat]] to play over the closing credits of the TV stories.

Because the licence was acquired before the show's cancellation, the audio stories for [[Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume One|Volume One]] through [[Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume Four|Volume Four]] couldn't develop the cliffhanger of the first series' final episode ''[[The Lost (TV story)|The Lost]]'', as they might have created a conflict with a potential second series, which never came to be. Thus, all stories from the first four volumes needed to take place between the events of the show's first series.<ref name="Big Finish Podcast">[https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/big-finish-podcast-2018-06-03-jenny-and-class-1864 The Big Finish Podcast: 2018-06-03 Jenny and Class]</ref><ref>[[BFX]]: ''[[Queen of Rhodia (audio story)|Queen of Rhodia]]''</ref> ''[[Queen of Rhodia (audio story)|Queen of Rhodia]]'', capping off Volume Four, takes place furthest along the timeline, between ''[[The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did (TV story)|The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did]]'' and ''[[The Lost (TV story)|The Lost]]''. 2023's ''[[Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince (audio story)|Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince]]'' was the first to directly acknowledge the events of the TV series' finale.

|[[Guy Adams]]

=== Volume Three ===

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|3.3

|''[[Sweet Nothings (audio story)|Sweet Nothings]]''

 

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|rowspan=3|[[28 April (releases)|28 April]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]]

|''[[The Creeper (audio story)|The Creeper]]''

|4.3

 

|[[24 January (releases)|24 January]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]]

* Both 2018 volumes were first announced in [[DWM 526]]; individuals whose copies arrived early leaked the news to social media.<ref>https://twitter.com/LadyALover95/status/1001097253182943233</ref> That same day, [[Greg Austin]] posted on his Twitter about working with Big Finish.<ref>https://twitter.com/Gregory_Austin/status/1001131273082023941</ref> As the news broke, the series did not yet have a page on the Big Finish website.